Pieces

The last time I saw you,I heard you laugh and saw you cry,but my eyes stayed closed.

The last time I heard you, my heart was beating fiercelylike the earth rumbling from a stampede of one thousand horses.

The last time I touched you, there was a crack between theearth widening every time I reached closer to you.​The last time I fell,you waited for the wound to heal and blood to stop.You gave me your heart. You gave me a chance, the last time.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."